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Mark Pears and family

The Pears family was part of a consortium that spent £800m last year buying a portfolio of 63 offices and banks from the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mark, 45, is managing director of William Pears Family Holdings in London. There are at least 18 separate companies that showed net assets of nearly £565m in 2006-07. The family has a £400m stake in property firm Telereal and wealth from dividends.